Search and Destroy : New Order

If it's not cheating to Search some non New Order tracks, then The title track of Electronic's Twisted Tenderness, the title track of The Other Two's Superhighways and Monaco's What Do You Want From Me are three of the best not-really-new-order new order songs ever.

Here To Stay was a better song than anyone could have ever expected from them at that stage in the game. It pisses all over anything from Get Ready, and that wasn't even a bad album.

Destroy: Fine Time. It almost ruins Technique. It's the only NO song I don't like.

Everything else is fabulous.

but the confusion instrumental is amazing and great!

GETTING ALONG FAMOUSLY

GWEN STEFANI has roped in NEW ORDER and ANDRE 3000 for her long-awaited solo album.

NME.COM has heard ‘Love Angel Music Baby’ (LAMB), which is released on November 22 through Interscope, and the record sees the No Doubt singer united with a host of famous friends.

New Order’s Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook – who are hard at work on their own follow-up to 2001's ‘Get Ready’ – provide guitar and bass on the track ‘Real Thing’, which was co-written by Linda Perry (Christina Aguilera / Pink) and produced by Nellee Hooper (Bjork / Massive Attack).

destroy: fine time (i just can't stand this track. it really isn't funny!)

Linda Perry?!? Say it isn't so...

(Fine Time is indeed brilliant.)

Linda Perry, source of all that is bad and wrong and stinky and mean and horrible and terrible and yech. Sorry, am I not clear?

(nb do not do an image search for "bizarro" if you are at work and you don't have Google Safe Search turned on... EW)

And yeah, "Fine Time" is incredibly brilliant. I didn't know that was even in question.

Oh, and I hated... HA-HATED 'Fine Time' when I first heard it. Now I love it.

There is actually quite a lot of NO that's not all that hot. But when they get it right...Oooh, boy!!!!

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Okay, so update based on Waiting -- I'd include "Guilt is a Useless Emotion," "Krafty" and the title track as definite searches now.

General question, meanwhile -- picked up the 81 NYC/Reading 98 DVD yesterday at last, and noticed there was a Finsbury Park 2002 DVD as well. That any good? And besides that and NewOrderStory, are those the only current official DVDs?

Whoa, this is new to me -- what is this exactly?

The cover is one of Saville's most beautiful:
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Really didn't like New Order Story much at all. Too slick, even downright stupid at times.

Neworderstory is a stone cold classic just for the scenes when they bring Tony Wilson on "The NO Show", resulting in a series of squirm-in-your-chair scenes as he trades insults with the band and you're not sure whether they're taking the piss or opening up the silos of resentment they have against each other (the answer, of course, is both).

I'll just say this: their total lack of...energy on camera just makes the music seem all that much more incredible. They are so completely bored looking, nonchalant, just doing their job, whatever. No rock personalities. Ha ha, I watch them on this thing and I think "look how bored these people look, as if they have no idea that they are creating some of the most brilliant music planet earth has ever known" I mean you wouldn't exactly say it was loaded with on-stage banter or rock theatrics or even palpable PASSION on their faces, would you?

I came to fall in love with some of the versions of songs on that thing.